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Higher Education Technology Blogs. At EdTech, we strive to create the most valuable resources for higher education technology professionals. One of the ways we do that is by highlighting the smartest and most innovative education tech bloggers on the web. Last spring, we released the first annual Dean’s List, a collection of 50 of the top higher education tech blogs on the Internet. That list was selected by our editors, and while it is a great resource, it lacked input from the community. This year, things are different. We asked readers to submit their favorite blogs and vote on the submissions. We we’re overwhelmed by the response. Congratulations to all of the bloggers on the list. If you think we missed a great blog, don’t hesitate to let us know in the Comments section.

UPDATE: An OPML file is available here. .eduGuru Every college is compelled to use the Internet to engage current students, entice prospective students and involve alumni. Read the blog: doteduguru.com Alan Levine Barks Here Read the blog: cogdogblog.com. 64 Ed-Tech Lists for College Professors, Administrators and IT Professionals. Technology is changing rapidly and, as a result, so is higher education. By leveraging the right technology in the right situations, professors can deepen student engagement and improve learning outcomes. That is the ultimate goal of technology in any education setting. Of course, all of this technology relies on a robust infrastructure to support connectivity and communication. And don’t forget training, supporting and troubleshooting.

Technology is a complex beast to tackle, and the introduction of consumer technology on campus has further muddied the issue. Student expectations are rising. At EdTech, we strive to provide the best resources so that administrators, professors and IT professionals can make educated decisions about technology on campus and in the classroom. Find Resources. NGLC is working on a robust knowledge center to provide key information, practical and strategic guidance, research, and analysis to our site visitors. Stay tuned to see this center become a reality soon! These resources will identify what it takes for next generation learning to take root much more broadly than it is today, organized around six interdependent dimensions of goal-setting, methodology, and conditions necessary for growth: The question is not whether technology will transform our education systems, but what that evolution will look like and how it will unfold.

Around the nation, innovators in and beyond education are developing and implementing technologies that can transform students’ ability to master knowledge and concepts, and to personalize learning to their own pace and needs. NGLC shares information about proven models that catalyze rapid and significant improvements for all students. The MOOC Guide. The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC Each chapter of this guide looks at one of the first MOOCs and some early influences. It contains these parts: - a description of the MOOC, what it did, and what was learned - a description of the element of MOOC theory learned in the offering of the course - practical tools that can be used to develop that aspect of a MOOC - practical tips on how to be successful Contribute to this Book You are invited to contribute. If you participated in a MOOC, add a paragraph describing your experience (you can sign your name to it, so we know it's a personal story).

In order to participate, please email or message your contact details, and we'll you to the list of people who can edit pages. Videos for #openbadges workshops [RESOURCES] A couple of months ago I wrote a popular post entitled How to make #openbadges work for you and your organisation. Given that I get requests every week to run workshops on Open Badges and can’t do them all, I thought I’d turn the points I made in that post into a couple of videos: (not showing?

Click here and here respectively) I’d very much appreciate some feedback. Web Literacy Lead for the Mozilla Foundation. College Scorecard. Program Goals. Program Goals Today, too few students are ready for college. Next Generation Learning Challenges is a collaborative, multi-year initiative created to address the barriers to educational innovation and tap the potential of technology to dramatically improve college readiness and completion in the United States. We believe that investing in transformative learning strategies that leverage proven and emerging learning technologies, collecting and sharing evidence of what works, and fostering a community of innovators and adopters will result in a robust pool of solutions and greater institutional adoption. This in turn will dramatically improve the education in the United States. Educators, institutions, and entrepreneurs are developing and testing many potentially breakthrough strategies, but too often they have little awareness of one another and few opportunities to share their innovations.

Figshare. Disruption in Higher Education. The Current and Future State of Higher Education. College Degree, No Class Time Required. Cathy Davidson - Changing Higher Education to Change the World. Cathy Davidson teaches at Duke University, where she co-directs the Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge and holds two distinguished chairs: Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a co-founder of the global learning network HASTAC, which administers the annual $2 million HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, and was recently appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities. Cathy is a frequent speaker and consultant on institutional change at universities, corporations, and non-profits around the world.

In July 2012, she was named the first educator on the six-person Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation. Jump to: Chat & Group Notes | Questions | Resources | 8 Principles | Participants. All about MOOCs. Whether you see them as a catalyst for change or mostly as hype, MOOCs are fundamentally different from other forays into open online learning. by Rosanna Tamburri A poetry appreciation class for 30,000 – what’s that like?

Hear the author talk about her experiences as a MOOC student in the latest Reporter's Notebook podcast. It’s been 25 years since I last set foot in a university classroom and, to be honest, the thought of doing so now makes me a little uneasy. An introductory email from the instructor, University of Pennsylvania English professor Al Filreis, assured me that I didn’t need to know a thing about poetry to succeed in the class. Week one gets under way with a look at the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Depending on who you talk to, my foray into online learning is either the vanguard of a new wave that will upend higher education as we know it – or just a bunch of hype. Dr. It’s easy to understand the enthusiasm behind MOOCs.

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MyEdu Unveils Programs to Bridge Gap Between Employers and Students - Students. By Caitlin Peterkin MyEdu, an online platform to help students plan and manage their college experience, unveiled on Wednesday two programs designed to improve the relationship between college and career. The first product, MyEdu Student Profile, will allow students to create a visual representation of their academic performance, volunteer and work history, skills, and interests. The second, MyEdu for Employers, will give companies the chance to outline desired classes, experiences, and skills for job candidates, identify students who meet those specifications, and interact directly with students interested in the field. "This is the first and only dedicated jobs-and-internships platform deeply embedded into students' fabric of academics," said Michael K.

Crosno, founder, chief executive, and chairman of MyEdu. MyEdu for Employers and Student Profile were developed in part to help deal with the high unemployment rate among recent college graduates. Mr. From the employment side, Mr. Mr. Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law - Wired Campus. Coursera offers free, online courses to people around the world, but if you live in Minnesota, company officials are urging you to log off or head for the border. The state’s Office of Higher Education has informed the popular provider of massive open online courses, or MOOC’s, that Coursera is unwelcome in the state because it never got permission to operate there.

It’s unclear how the law could be enforced when the content is freely available on the Web, but Coursera updated its Terms of Service to include the following caution: Notice for Minnesota Users:Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so.

But Ms. Grimes said the law the letters refer to isn’t new. Ms. >> What You Need to Know About MOOC’s Return to Top. One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education. Presentations. DML Hub. DML2013. Badges for Lifelong Learning | The Future is Now: Unpacking Digital Badging and Micro-credentialing for K-20 Educators.

In higher education contexts, forward thinking educators such as Alex Halavais, Arizona State University and Daniel Hickey, Indiana University have piloted the use of badge schema to supplement or replace more traditional grading schemes in courses. In a recent post to his blog, Remediating Assessment, Dr. Hickey articulates his methodology in issuing digital badges to students in a doctoral class in Educational Assessment (Hickey, 2012). Interest in using digital badges in higher education is gaining purchase: writing recently for the HASTAC blog (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), Sheryl Grant considers some of the innovative higher education projects such as the Open Michigan badges initiative to acknowledge scholarly contributions to an open education initiative (University of Michigan).

What are Digital Badges? Digital badges are essentially credentials which may be earned by meeting established performance criteria. Dr. Resources: Cited works: Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College - Wired Campus. Salman Khan’s dream college looks very different from the typical four-year institution. The founder of Khan Academy, a popular site that offers free online video lectures about a variety of subjects, lays out his thoughts on the future of education in his book, The One World School House: Education Reimagined, released last month.

Though most of the work describes Mr. Khan’s experiences with Khan Academy and his suggestions for changing elementary- and secondary-school systems, he does devote a few chapters to higher education. In a chapter titled “What College Could Be Like,” Mr. “Traditional universities proudly list the Nobel laureates they have on campus (most of whom have little to no interaction with students),” he writes. Mr. In the book, Mr. [Image courtesy of Hachette Book Group.] Return to Top. Pedagogy and Space: Empirical Research on New Learning Environments (EDUCAUSE Quarterly. Key Takeaways In the new technology-enhanced learning spaces at the University of Minnesota, students outperformed final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores. When instructors adapted their pedagogical approach to the new space by intentionally incorporating more active, student-centered teaching techniques, student learning improved. Students and faculty had positive perceptions of the new learning environments but also had to adjust to the unusual classrooms.

In a previous EDUCAUSE Quarterly article,1 we reported the results of quasi-experimental research on the University of Minnesota's new, technology-enhanced learning spaces called Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs). That investigation found — after controlling for potentially confounding factors such as instructor, instructional methods, assessments, and student demographics — that teaching in an ALC contributed significantly to student learning outcomes. Two specific research questions guided this phase of our research: Professor Alec Couros: "The Connected Teacher" A New Pedagogy is Emerging...And Online Learning is a Key Contributing Factor.

In all the discussion about learning management systems, open educational resources (OERs), massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the benefits and challenges of online learning, perhaps the most important issues concern how technology is changing the way we teach and - more importantly - the way students learn. For want of a better term, we call this “pedagogy.” What is clear is that major changes in the way we teach post-secondary students are being triggered by online learning and the new technologies that increase flexibility in, and access to, post-secondary education.

In looking at what these pedagogical changes are and their implications for students, faculty, staff, and institutions, we consider: What drives the development of this new pedagogy? Changes in society, student expectations, and technology are motivating innovative university and college faculty and instructors to re-think pedagogy and teaching methods. New Demands of a Knowledge-Based Society New Student Expectations.

Academic Evolution: Scholar or Public Intellectual? After listening to Henry Jenkins and a few others speaking about public intellectualism lately, I have felt a sense of civic duty coming over me, something that links participating in democracy with the participatory media of Web 2.0. How obvious, how appropriate, that we share our best thinking with the world at large; how simple it is to do this, now, through blogs and online media. Here's the problem: I'm a scholar. A scholar is not a public intellectual; a scholar is a private intellectual. We who are trained in a discipline speak to our peers in that discipline, and the response of that extremely small brotherhood determines tenure, promotion, and the various perquisites of academia.

When a scholar does choose to address the public, as when a colleague of mine once chose to write a column for the local newspaper, that scholar is considered not to be doing his or her job. This is how a scholar is doomed to a life of private intellectual inquiry and expression. Digital Storytelling - We jam econo. Com Education. DME WIDE • World Inequality Database on Education.

At Educause, a discussion about OER.